Ben Burns
Hello! I am a first-year PhD student in Georgia Tech CSE advised by Peng Chen. My interests are in the mathematics of generative modeling and in AI4Science.
Before Georgia Tech, I was an undergraduate at UMass Amherst studying math and CS. I am honored to have been advised by Markos Katsoulakis and Benjamin Zhang. My senior thesis was on PDE perspectives on score-based diffusion models (SBDM).
During my time at a UMass, I was an Undergraduate Course Assistant (UCA) for Formal Language Theory, a Head UCA for both Algorithms and Foundations of Programming, and a UCA program coordinator. I am proud to have been recognized with one of the inaugural Lifetime UCA awards.
blog
| [2024-12-29] | Picking CICS electives and figuring out what topics you like |
| [2024-07-15] | Navigating the UMass CICS course requirements |
| [2024-05-21] | Advice for UMass Math/CS undergrads interested in research |
recent news
| [2024-10-21] | I presented a poster on PDE perspectives on SBDM at SIAM MDS 2024. |
| [2024-08-19] | I started my PhD at Georgia Tech CSE. |
| [2024-06-24] | I presented a poster on PDE perspectives on SBDM at CAIMS 2024. |